Tag archive: BlueBeat

Back in 2009, online music market BlueBeat made headlines by offering Beatles songs for sale for prices as low as $0.25 a track—long before the Beatles finally succumbed to the lure of online music sales and let their music be sold via Apple's iTunes. A court order (followed by an injunction) took Beatles music off BlueBeat in short order, but the record labels concerned over BlueBeat's activities—EMI, Capital, and… Read More

U.S. District Judge John F. Walker has issued a preliminary injunction barring online music sites BlueBeat and BaseBeat from streaming or selling any tracks from EMI artists—and that includes the Beatles, along with popular acts like Coldplay. Record label EMI had filed suit against BlueBeat and its owner Hank Risan for streaming and selling tunes by the Beatles and other EMI artists without the labels' permission. While the vast majority… Read More

A federal judge has ordered BlueBeat.com stop selling tracks from The Beatles and other EMI artists pending a hearing in EMI's copyright infringement lawsuit against the site and its parent company, Media Rights Technologies. EMI filed suit against BlueBeat earlier this week, claiming the company had no right to offer music from the Beatles and other EMI artists online—The Beatles in particular have famously withheld their… Read More

The music industry has never been averse to letting its lawyers do the talking, and today bring two more instances of lawsuits filed over the chaffing interface between the music industry and the digital world. Record label EMI is suing the online music distribution site BlueBeat.com for selling digital versions of Beatles' music online without authorization, and rock-pop band No Doubt has filed suit against Activision for using their… Read More